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said, other than he didn t talk business. well, there hasn t been too many opportunities to ask him the questions about him because there haven t been white house press briefings, he has been traveling last week he was on vacation. he did get the question about it today. the white house has been arguing allies of the white house are essentially saying that they have not proven that president biden took money, took bribes that, when the speaker phone conversations took place that devon archer says that business wasn t discussed. it was more like how s the weather. that business wasn t discussed at these dinners and republicans haven t been age to show proof connecting president biden directly to hunter biden s business dealings. bret: yeah. it s just tough. the dinners, the phone calls, it s not all about the weather. number one. number two, the firing of that prosecutor in ukraine go back to that tape and it has a different
and the civilian death toll mounts, there is still some degree of international consensus about russia s behavior in ukraine. nick paton walsh, cnn, zaporizhzhia, ukraine. nick, thank you so much for that. omar? new cnn reporting this morning on how the war is going. ukraine s western allies are receiving what they say are increasingly sobering assessments about ukraine s counteroffensive, specifically the ukrainian force s ability to retake significant territory from russian troops. so let s talk about this with retired army major mike lions. good to see you this morning, major. so i want to start with that latest reporting that western allies are receiving increasingly sobering updates on the counteroffensive here, which is of course, very different than maybe some of the optimism we saw leading into this. plainly, where does ukraine go from here? so we re two months into their counteroffensive to the day actually today. and right now their counteroffensive has not gained the k
american public, especially when you have americans back at home. make the case to the american public why they should care about this and why we should continue funding ukraine. brian: i appreciate that. even if this building people don t know why. because they don t talk about it. his secretary of state doesn t explain it. you know who does a great job? general jack keane and lindsey graham. let me help you understand that what you think of it as imperfect as it is, ukraine was a country that was fry and wanted nothing to do with the east, was thinking west, poland the same thing, all the baltic states, sail thing. they want no part of that russian sphere. we let ukraine go. down go the baltics infiltrating
american public, especially when you have americans back at home. make the case to the american public why they should care about this and why we should continue funding ukraine. brian: i appreciate that. even if this building people don t know why. because they don t talk about it. his secretary of state doesn t explain it. you know who does a great job? general jack keane and lindsey graham. let me help you understand that what you think of it as imperfect as it is, ukraine was a country that was fry and wanted nothing to do with the east, was thinking west, poland the same thing, all the baltic states, sail thing. they want no part of that russian sphere. we let ukraine go. down go the baltics infiltrating